Razor hone and strop



R. E. BROWN.

RAZOR HOME AND STROP. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14. 1918.

" Patented Feb. 24,1920.

.ROBERT E. BROWN, or OLEAIJ, new YORK.

Razor. HONE Am) sraor.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

Application filed March 14, 1918. Serial No. 222,401.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olean, in the county of Cattaraugus and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razor Hones and Strops, of which the following is a specification This invention relates to razor hones and strops and has as its primary object to provide a simple and compact device embodying both a, hone and a stropping surface. 7 The invention further has as its o'b ect to provide a device ofthe class described above so constructed that the hone side of the device may be placed face down. upon a table or the like without likelihood of injury to the hone and without deposlting upon the surface upon which the device is laid, any oil, lather, or water WhlCh has been applied to the honing surface.

Another object of the invention 1s to provide a stropping surface which will possess the desired degree of yieldability so that its effect upon the razor edge will be substantially the same as that of an ordinary suspended strop, one end of which is'held in the'hand while stropping in the ordinary manner.

At the present time the tendency is manufacture devices of this nature having a relatively short honing surface and, therefore, the invention has as a further object to provide a combined honing and stropping device embodying a relatively short honing surface and yet having a relatively long stropping surface.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through a modified formof the structure shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4: is a perspective view illustrating a further modification of the invention;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a still further modified form of the device.

In all forms of the device illustrated, the same consists generally speaking of a body which may be of wood, or any other suitable material, and which is provided upon one face with a hone, the other face of the body having applied to it a sheet of felt or other yieldable material to which in turn is applied a sheet or strip of leather to constitute the stropping surface. In that form of the invention shown in Fig. 1, the body, which, as above stated, may be of wood or any other material, is indicated in general by the numeral 1 and one face of the body, which face is indicated in general by the numeral 2, is provided at each end with a transversely extending bulged portion 3, the

said portions constituting rests for supporting the face 2 of the body in spaced relation to a surface upon which the said rests 3 are disposed. In the intermediate portion of its length, the face 2 of the body 1 is formed with a depression or recess 4 which'extends transversely of the said face 2' and in the present instance the entire width thereof although the recess may terminate short of the lateral edges of the body '1 if found desirable. Disposed and secured inany suitable manner as by adhesive, within the recess 4, is a hone block indicated by the numeral 5, the face of the hone lying beyond the plane of the face 2 of thebody 1, but being spacedfinwardly of the plane occupied by the engagingportions of the rests 3. Viewing the structure in another light, the body 1 maybe considered asforme'd in its face 2 with a depression which'results in the rest portions The opposite face of the body'l, indicated by'the numeral 6, constitutes a plane surface to which is secured in any suitable manner, as for example by adhesive, one face of a sheet 7 of felt or other yieldable material, the said sheet preferably covering the entire area of the face 6 and being of any desired thickness and degree of compactness. Suitably secured to the other or outer face of the sheet 7 is a sheet or strip 8 of leather or any composition of materials providing'a stropping surface. From the foregoing description of this form of the invention it will be understood that the hone 5 may be made relatively short and located either midway between the ends of the body 1 or nearer one end than the other. It will also be understood that as the face of the hone is spaced inwardly from the plane occupied or touched by the engaging surfaces of the rests 3, the device as a whole may be disposed upon the surface of a table or the like in the manner shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings without likelihood of the surface of the bone coming in contact with the said surface which would be likely to result in scratching of the hone or injury thereto or to the said surface, or in depositing upon the surfaceoil, water, or lather'previously applied to the face of the hone. It will further be apparent that the sheet 7' being yieldable, provides a yieldable support or backing for the stroppi'ng sheet 8*so that as the razor is moved backwardly and forwardly over this surface and pressure is applied, the surface will yield in substantially thesarne manner as the surface of a suspended strop one end of which is held in the hand during the operation of stropping the razor.

In thatforin of the invention shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the stropping sheet is indicated by the numeral 9, the yieldablc backing therefor by the numeral 10, the body by the numeral 11, and the hone block by the numeral 12. In this form ofthe invention as in the previously described form, the stropping sheet 9, and the backing sheet 10 extend the full width and length of the face of the body 11 to which they applied and secured. However, in this {9 9m instead of the hone 12 being relatively short, the same extends the entire length of the other face of the body 11, which face is indicated by the numeral 13, and the saidfaee is provided at its end with rests 14 corres onding to the rests 3, the ends ofthe hone lock 12 abutting against the inner or opposed sides of the'said rests 14. In this form of the, invention, however, as in the previously described, form, the working surface of the hone block 12 is spaced inwardly of the plane of the engaging portions of therests 14 for the purpose previously explained. Y

In that forn'rof the invention shown. in Fig. 4: of the drawings, parts'corresponding to the parts illustrated in Fig. 3 are indicated by corresponding reference numerals. However,in thisform the face 13 of the body 11 may be provided with a relatively shallow recess to receive hone block 12,

In that form of the invention shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, the stropping sheet is ii dicated by the, numeral 16, the yieldable backing bythe numeral 17, the body by the numeral 18, and the hone block by the numeral 19, and in this form of the device all of the elements. enumerated have their corresponding edges in registration so that the device as a whole is rectangular,the stropp ee' su ace extendi g o e th nt area of'one face of the body 18 and the I ho e l ck .9 ext nding o e t e ti area of the other faceof the said body;

Having thus descrihedthe invention, What s laimed newis .1 In an article of the Iclass described, a stock having a stropping sheet secured upon one of its faces, and a'hone secured tothe other face ofthe stock, the stock having its last mentioned face depressed to provide rests at the ends thereof and the said hone ha in'a ts w rk-ins fac o a ed n a P an spaced inwardly of the plane of the engaging portions of the rests, the space between e rests and vre s e the fa of h 10 being unobstructed, whereby when the streppi s irtwe i u t e article ayb e posed upor its rests with the said-working en aged by the said rests.

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